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For the last few years, the Tel Aviv municipality has been holding an annual Piano Festival – a series of free or almost free concerts featuring some of the most popular Israeli musicians playing their songs on the piano.
But THIS is not that festival. This is the Mizrahi Piano Festival.
Mizrahi Jews are Middle Eastern in origin, Ashkenazi Jews are of European extraction. And you can see evidence of discrimination, or at least inequality, between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim in Israeli society. Like, for example, in the piano festival. This publicly funded festival has always omitted Mizrahi music from its line-up – despite the fact that it’s one of the most popular genres in Israel. So, this year, Ophir Toubul and a few other Mizrahi activists decided to organize their own piano festival.
What the Mizrahi Piano Festival shows is that there IS an audience for this music, and the culture is not low-brow or cheap. In fact, contemporary Mizrahi culture is the space where Middle Eastern and Western aesthetics combine to form something new, something different and authentically Israeli.
Produced by Shoshi Shmuluvitz
Music by Liron Amram and Nasrin Kadri
If you’re in Tel Aviv, come see Liron Amram and the Panthers perform at Pasaz on Thursday, Nov. 6.
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